Record ID: SWYOR-6F2089
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete bead made from translucent dark blue glass, dating to the Roman period around AD 50-200. The bead is circular in plan with a central hole (annular). It has a flat top and bottom. The inner surface is smooth and the outer surface is adorned with regular longitudinal (transverse) ridges and grooves (gadroons) providing a distinctive ridged appearance. It may be cassified as a "melon" bead, but it is less spherical than most examples. Measurements are; diameter 12.6mm, thickness 6.4mm and weight 0.94g. Melon beads are typical of the early Roman period,…
Created on: Monday 11th December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
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Record ID: LON-7030E4
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
A complete Roman faience melon bead dating to the period c. AD 50 - 200. The bead is light blue in colour and has seventeen vertical grooves on the outer surface. The bead has a perforation with a diameter of 6.29mm. The interior surface exhibits a series of concentric grooves. Dimensions: diameter: 16.45mm; height: 14.82mm; weight: 3.82g Crummy (1995:30) writes "These beads are found in 1st- and 2nd-century contexts (Guido 1978, 100) and seem, on the evidence from our catalogue, to have been introduced into this country at the conquest. There is some slight indic…
Created on: Tuesday 5th September 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
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Record ID: YORYM-06A2E2
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a glass bracelet dating to the Roman period, c. AD 50 - AD 200. Kilbride-Jones type 2. The bracelet is D-shaped in section and blue in colour. At the apex of the curved side a semi-circular groove is present into which a separate strip of glass has been fitted through marvering. The strip is comprised of alternating thick blue and thin white glass cables which have been twisted together to create a twisted rope effect. The bracelet fragment is 27.79mm long, 13.12mm wide and 8.84mm thick. It weighs 4.47g. Bracelets and bangles of …
Created on: Tuesday 14th March 2023
Last updated: Saturday 24th June 2023
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Record ID: LEIC-F2EDD6
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of Roman glass bracelet, dating to c.AD 50 - 200. Kilbride-Jones type 2.  The bracelet fragment is D-shaped in section with worn breaks at both ends and is formed from a light blue-green glass. At the apex of the curved side a semi-circular groove is present into which a separate strip of darker blue opaque glass has been fitted through marvering. This strip has faint transverse striations suggesting it was twisted which is a common feature on bracelets of this type. This twisting however is not as apparent as on other examples in which alternating opaque blue and…
Created on: Tuesday 6th December 2022
Last updated: Sunday 25th June 2023
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Record ID: NLM-9CA4E3
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Glass bead. A small, semi-translucent green-tinted segmented bead of two tiny sub-spherical components with a collar between them, and with a stringing hole of diameter 1mm. Suggested date: Roman, 100-300 AD. Length: 6.9mm, Diameter: 3.4mm, Weight: 0.07gms
Created on: Thursday 9th September 2021
Last updated: Friday 10th September 2021
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Record ID: NLM-9C92A7
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Blue glass melon bead fragment. Mid blue semi-translucent glass bead fragment, from a bead of gadrooned or ribbed moulded form with a stringing hole of diameter in excess of 4mm. The form suggests a Roman date, albeit other objects reported from the vicinity may hint at local glass-working in the Roman period, and perhaps before. Suggested date: Roman, 43-410 Height: 7.7mm, Width: 8.7mm, Thickness: 3.6mm, Weight: 0.33gms
Created on: Thursday 9th September 2021
Last updated: Monday 4th July 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bainton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-9C7E97
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Greenish colourless cylindrcal glass bead. The bead is flattened on one side and has a projecting ‘tail’ where the newly made bead was separated from a larger strand. A central stringing hole of diameter 2.8mm appears. This object may indicate the local manufacture of glass beads. Suggested date: AD 43-410 Diameter: 17mm, Thickness: 5.7mm, Weight: 2.32gms
Created on: Thursday 9th September 2021
Last updated: Monday 4th July 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bainton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DYFED-0949E5
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Complete glass bead of unknown date, but thought to possibly be Roman. The bead is blue in colour and has a smooth surface. The bead is whole with very few imperfections or signs of wear. The bead weighs 2.9g and has a height of 11.24mm and a width of 13.88mm.Complete glass bead of unknown date, but thought to possibly be Roman. The bead is blue in colour and has a smooth surface. The bead is whole with very few imperfections or signs of wear. The bead weighs 2.9g and has a height of 11.24mm and a width of 13.88mm.
Created on: Friday 9th October 2020
Last updated: Friday 25th March 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Llanrhian', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-83B8B2
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete blue glass bead of uncertain but probably Roman date (c. AD 100-410). The bead is broadly sub-spherical or bun-shaped with a circular perforation extending through the centre. The inside edges of the perforation are damaged in places but the exterior surfaces of the bead itself are smooth, rounded and relatively unblemished. The bead measures 10.3mm in diameter and 6.8mm in height. The perforation has a consistent diameter of 2.2mm at each end. The bead weighs 0.93 grams.
Created on: Tuesday 28th April 2020
Last updated: Monday 4th July 2022
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Record ID: PUBLIC-E07F45
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
A complete Roman glass bi-chrome gaming counter dating from AD 200-410. It is plano-convex in shape, featuring a convex top side, a flat bottom, and a rounded edge. The counter is made of a 'blob' of opaque black glass, decorated  with a sub-circular white glass spot on the top surface. Numerous air holes from the manufacture process are present on both the upper and lower surface. Other glass gaming counters are recorded in Crummy (1995:92) and Rees, Crummy, Ottaway, and Dunn (2008:116). A set of glass counters was found on a 4th century lead coffin at Lullings…
Created on: Friday 27th March 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 24th January 2023
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Record ID: BH-EDA60C
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
Workflow stage: Published
A straight-sided body fragment from a prismatic bottle dating to the Roman period.
Created on: Monday 27th January 2020
Last updated: Thursday 11th March 2021
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Record ID: BH-ED83F6
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Darlington
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment from the body of a prismatic bottle dating to the Roman period.
Created on: Monday 27th January 2020
Last updated: Thursday 11th March 2021
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Record ID: BH-85E40E
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a Roman blue/green glass prismatic bottle dating 1st-3rd century.A.D The fragment is roughly trapezoidal in plan and rectangular in cross-section. The edges are roughly broken and both the upper and lower surfaces are heavily scratched. The fragment measures 31mm in length, 23mm in width and is 3.5mm thick. It weighs 3.7 grams.
Created on: Monday 6th August 2018
Last updated: Friday 7th September 2018
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Record ID: BH-5527E8
Object type: WINDOW GLASS
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Darlington
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of blown window glass dating to the third or fourth century AD. Straight-sided. Greenish/colourless. Blown window glass was produced from the third century onwards and its colour and quality is consistent with that of fourth century vessels, occurring in greenish and yellowish/green colours with many bubbles and specks, typical of the late Roman period. It was generally blown as a long cylinder which was then opened out to form a double glossy pane (Harden 1961). Buildings occupied during the late third and fourth century often contained both cast and blown fragments
Created on: Monday 4th June 2018
Last updated: Saturday 31st July 2021
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Record ID: BH-517371
Object type: WINDOW GLASS
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Darlington
Workflow stage: Published
Cast window fragment, blue/green dating to the Roman period. Cast window glass panes are relatively thick with a characteristic flat, rough underside, a glossy, slightly undulating upper surface, frequently with tooling marks and a rounded edge (Boon 1966). It first appeared around the middle of the first century and became increasingly common on Flavian and later military sites as well as in villas and other domestic buildings. It is probable that window glass was made close to the site rather than being transported over a long distance. It may have been made from re-cycled blue/gree…
Created on: Monday 4th June 2018
Last updated: Saturday 31st July 2021
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Record ID: BH-500F54
Object type: WINDOW GLASS
Broad period: ROMAN
Workflow stage: Published
Cast window fragment, blue/green dating to the Roman period. Cast window glass panes are relatively thick with a characteristic flat, rough underside, a glossy, slightly undulating upper surface, frequently with tooling marks and a rounded edge (Boon 1966). It first appeared around the middle of the first century and became increasingly common on Flavian and later military sites as well as in villas and other domestic buildings. It is probable that window glass was made close to the site rather than being transported over a long distance. It may have been made from re-cycled blue/gree…
Created on: Monday 4th June 2018
Last updated: Saturday 31st July 2021
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Record ID: SWYOR-AA2C19
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Rotherham
Workflow stage: Published
A collection of 12 glass beads of possible Roman date, AD 43 - 410. The beads are varied in shape and colour. They range from dark blue through royal blue, to light blue (both translucent and opaque) and turquoise, green, yellow as well as mottled cream and blue. They are mainly annular or globular beads, some more rounded and some more cylindrical. They all have circular central holes of varying diameter from 1-3mm. Birgitta Hoffmann (Pers. Comm.) draws attention to the bead at the top left appearing to be cased colourless over blue glass and the one at the bottom right apparently…
Created on: Monday 19th February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 16th May 2019
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Record ID: BH-328229
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
A small fragment of blue-green vessel glass, possibly from a vessel dating to the Roman period. The fragment is slightly convex in section and the outer surface of the fragment is horizontally ribbed and grooved. The fragment is 21mm in length, 15mm in width and 3mm in thickness.
Created on: Thursday 1st February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 24th October 2019
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Record ID: BH-F0DD64
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Darlington
Workflow stage: Published
A turquoise glass bead dating to the Roman period. The bead is rectangular in plan and hexagonal in section, with a central circular perforation. The bead measures 11mm in length, 7mm in diameter, the perforation has a diameter of 2mm. Hexagonal-sectioned beads, such as no. 31, were in use throughout the Roman period and were most common in the fourth century (Guido 1978, 96-7, nos. 8-9, fig. 37). Strings of these beads have occasionally been identified. For example a length of gold chain with four green hexagonal beads was found at Marlowe Car Park, Canterbury (Johns and Garrard…
Created on: Monday 29th January 2018
Last updated: Sunday 5th April 2020
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Record ID: SOM-D913EB
Object type: ROD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Part of a twisted glass rod of Roman date, probably part of a stirrer or toilet implement. The piece has a slight bend at one end, just before the break. The other end also has an irregular break. It has been twisted while hot creating a regularly and closely spaced spiral of around 4 turns to 10mm. The glass is a clear, translucent pale blue. The fragment is 45.3mm long, 7.1mm in diameter and weighs 3.82 grams.
Created on: Thursday 16th November 2017
Last updated: Thursday 24th October 2019
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